circumfusev.
/səːkəmˈfjuːz/ 1. transitive. To pour, diffuse, or spread (a fluid) around or about (anything).
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the world > space > extension in space > spreading or diffusion > [verb (transitive)] > diffuse around
circumfuse1648
1648 R. Herrick Hesperides sig. F6v All the Spices of the East Are circumfused there.
1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. ii. 101 This vast Element of Air, circumfused about this terraqueous Globe.
1812 J. Playfair Outl. Nat. Philos. I. 292 An elastic fluid, circumfused about a solid.
2. To surround (a thing) on all sides with or in (a fluid medium or the like); to bathe. (The surrounding substance may itself be the subject.)
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > wrapping > wrap [verb (transitive)] > enfold or envelop > in a surrounding medium
belapc1175
take?a1300
wrapa1382
environa1393
enumberc1400
involvea1420
enfoldc1425
bewrapa1430
mantlec1450
envelop1474
enwrap1545
imply1590
circumvolve1607
circumfuse1608
becloaka1618
swathe1624
gird1645
wrap1656
velope1722
steep1798
bathe1816
cloak1818
impall1852
atmosphere1881
kirtle1888
1608 B. Jonson Masque of Blacknesse in Characters Two Royall Masques 72 In the lake..Appear'd a face, all circumfused with light.
1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Odyssey in Iliad & Odyssey II. vii. 174 Ulysses..by Minerva thick With darkness circumfus'd.
a1807 W. Wordsworth Prelude (1959) viii. 290 The light of beauty did not fall in vain, Or grandeur circumfuse them to no end.
1818 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Canto IV lii. 29 Glowing and circumfused in speechless love.
Derivatives
circumfused adj. diffused or spread around; surrounding or enveloping as a fluid.
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the world > space > extension in space > spreading or diffusion > [adjective] > diffused around
circumfused1596
circumfusile1725
the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > wrapping > [adjective] > enfolding or enveloping > in a medium > as a fluid
ambient1572
circumfused1596
circumambient1633
1596 C. Fitzgeffry Sir Francis Drake sig. C8 Whose tops..Were damp'd with circumfused clouds from sight.
1649 J. Bulwer Pathomyotomia ii. iv. 157 The circumfused skin..hath a voluntary motion.
1837 Fraser's Mag. 16 666 Disperse into thin air the circumfused air.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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